Publications by authors named "Faisal Farooq"

Intermittent fasting has been practiced for centuries across many cultures globally. Recently many studies have reported intermittent fasting for its lifestyle benefits, the major shift in eating habits and patterns is associated with several changes in hormones and circadian rhythms. Whether there are accompanying changes in stress levels is not widely reported especially in school children.

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  • * Recent advancements in AI have enabled the prediction of BGL through data from non-invasive Wearable Devices (WDs), offering a potential improvement in diabetes management.
  • * This study explored the effectiveness of linear and non-linear models for estimating BGL using data from WDs, finding high accuracy levels and validating the use of commercial WDs in diabetes monitoring.
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Background: In 2021 alone, diabetes mellitus, a metabolic disorder primarily characterized by abnormally high blood glucose (BG) levels, affected 537 million people globally, and over 6 million deaths were reported. The use of noninvasive technologies, such as wearable devices (WDs), to regulate and monitor BG in people with diabetes is a relatively new concept and yet in its infancy. Noninvasive WDs coupled with machine learning (ML) techniques have the potential to understand and conclude meaningful information from the gathered data and provide clinically meaningful advanced analytics for the purpose of forecasting or prediction.

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Background: Anxiety and depression are the most common mental disorders worldwide. Owing to the lack of psychiatrists around the world, the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) into wearable devices (wearable AI) has been exploited to provide mental health services.

Objective: This review aimed to explore the features of wearable AI used for anxiety and depression to identify application areas and open research issues.

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  • This study explores the relationship between serum metabolites and metabolic syndrome features in Arabic individuals with obesity, comparing those with only obesity to those with obesity and metabolic syndrome.
  • Researchers found significant differences in 83 metabolites, particularly lipids like sphingomyelins, which were lower in those with metabolic syndrome, suggesting a correlation with negative health markers.
  • Key metabolic pathways associated with chronic inflammation were also identified as being expressed differently between the two groups, highlighting the complex metabolic changes linked to obesity and metabolic syndrome.
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Background: Preterm deliveries have many negative health implications on both mother and child. Identifying the population level factors that increase the risk of preterm deliveries is an important step in the direction of mitigating the impact and reducing the frequency of occurrence of preterm deliveries. The purpose of this work is to identify preterm delivery risk factors and their progression throughout the pregnancy from a large collection of Electronic Health Records (EHR).

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Background: Prevalence of diabetes has steadily increased over the last few decades with 1.5 million deaths reported in 2012 alone. Traditionally, analyzing patients with diabetes has remained a largely invasive approach.

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Background: Obesity-associated dysglycemia is associated with metabolic disorders. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are known regulators of metabolic homeostasis. We aimed to assess the relationship of circulating miRNAs with clinical features in obese Qatari individuals.

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Objective: To develop a machine-based algorithm from clinical and demographic data, physical activity and glucose variability to predict hyperglycaemic and hypoglycaemic excursions in patients with type 2 diabetes on multiple glucose lowering therapies who fast during Ramadan.

Patients And Methods: Thirteen patients (10 males and three females) with type 2 diabetes on 3 or more anti-diabetic medications were studied with a Fitbit-2 pedometer device and Freestyle Libre (Abbott Diagnostics) 2 weeks before and 2 weeks during Ramadan. Several machine learning techniques were trained to predict blood glucose levels in a regression framework utilising physical activity and contemporaneous blood glucose levels, comparing Ramadan to non-Ramadan days.

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Despite growing concerns over pathological internet usage, studies based on validated psychometric instruments are still lacking in Pakistan. This study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) in a sample of Pakistani students. A total of 522 students of medicine and dentistry completed the questionnaire, which consisted of four sections: (a) demographics, (b) number of hours spent on the Internet per day, (c) English version of the IAT, and (d) the Defense Style Questionnaire-40.

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Objective: The ability to predict patient readmission risk is extremely valuable for hospitals, especially under the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services which went into effect starting October 1, 2012. There is a plethora of work in the literature that deals with developing readmission risk prediction models, but most of them do not have sufficient prediction accuracy to be deployed in a clinical setting, partly because different hospitals may have different characteristics in their patient populations.

Methods And Materials: We propose a generic framework for institution-specific readmission risk prediction, which takes patient data from a single institution and produces a statistical risk prediction model optimized for that particular institution and, optionally, for a specific condition.

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One of the important pieces of information in a patient's clinical record is the information about their medications. Besides administering information, it also consists of the category of the medication i.e.

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P300 is a positive event-related potential used by P300-brain computer interfaces (BCIs) as a means of communication with external devices. One of the main requirements of any P300-based BCI is accuracy and time efficiency for P300 extraction and detection. Among many attempted techniques, independent component analysis (ICA) is currently the most popular P300 extraction technique.

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Information extraction from clinical free text is one of the key elements in medical informatics research. In this paper we propose a general framework to improve learning-based information extraction systems with the help of rich annotations (i.e.

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This paper describes a machine learning, text processing approach that allows the extraction of key medical information from unstructured text in Electronic Medical Records. The approach utilizes a novel text representation that shares the simplicity of the widely used bag-of-words representation, but can also represent some form of semantic information in the text. The large dimensionality of this type of learning models is controlled by the use of a ℓ(1) regularization to favor parsimonious models.

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The study of medicinal plants has many unique challenges and special considerations. These plants are studied for their specific chemistry, or pharmacologic activity. Plants are highly sensitive to their environment and respond through changes in their chemistry.

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